Katrina

Okay, first the funny, and then the not-so-much.
Fed Ex routes everything through Memphis. Everything. Even if you, say, send it from Washington D.C. to Manhattan. So if you are a debut author sending her first book via Fed Ex to Manhattan, you’d better make sure that a hurricane hasn’t shut Memphis down.
Otherwise, try the post [...]

Whoosh!

Hear that, bloglings? That is the sound of the angel FedEx, bearing my manuscript on its gossamer wings, to teh mythical isle of Manhattan.
FedEx is very strong. It must be. The manuscript is… long. Like, 5k longer than planned. I’m told this is okay.
I am *so* tired.

yen

Like most in my profession, I spend a good deal of time poring over the deals listed at Publisher’s Marketplace (hereinafter referred to as PM). I often wonder if other industries have such coolio announcements whenever anyone gets a job.
Jason Delaw, Esq., graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law, recently hired to do litigation at [...]

some mighty cool news

That this time isn’t a practical joke.
My friend Gena Showalter just sold a YA novel entitled GOTH GIRL to Lauren McKenna at MTV books. I heard that she was inspired in part by my book and that because of my muse-erificness, she owes me a drink.
I’m announcing this on the internet so that she can’t [...]

citizenship

What’s really bad is how many of these I knew the answer to because of my The West Wing obsession. And they say TV makes you dumb.

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations – you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

Peeps

Scott Westerfeld’s new book is out today.
And, um, he has a blog.
I think I have found my new platonic crush-object.
Scott, as some of you may know, is the author of the fabulous UGLIES, trilogy, the second of which, PRETTIES, is available November 1. I’ve already pre-ordered it. I may have ot go to Borders [...]

My Friend Flickr

magazine Originally uploaded by dianapeterfreund.
Oh, wow! I know, I know, I’m not supposed to tell anyone until we get closer to the day the issue will be on the stands, but I just can’t keep it in any longer.
Debut Magazine is doing a whole issue about [...]

last scene

Yeah, folks, you heard that right. I am currently concocting the final scene for my first-ever contracted novel.
Pray it’s faboo.
In other news, my fabulous (and smokin’!) editor, Kerri Buckley, will be a guest at The Knight Agency chat on August 28th at 9 p.m. ET. If I’m there, it will mean that my book is [...]

ISBN

Means “International Standard Book Number.” It is the official way that bookstores order books and make sure they are getting hte right book and the right edition (and not, say, the dozen other versions of Pride and Prejudice rather than the Penguin one). When you order using the ISBN, you get that book, and that [...]

Movie Buff

So in bloghopping the other day, I noted that Cranky Reader was listing which of the AFI Top 100 Films she’d seen. I decided to do the same. Seen 56 of these. A former film major I work with has seen 95, and my cubicle mate, who lives with a film professor, has seen 99 [...]